“We cannot separate ourselves from the water we drink, the food we eat or the air we breathe any more
than we can care for just a single leaf on a tree. And yet, human law almost everywhere defines “nature”
as property to be owned, commodified and destroyed at will for human profit. Most of the destruction of
the Earth is sanctioned by law—from blowing the tops of mountains for coal; to fracturing the earth for oil
and natural gas; to clear cutting the Amazon and displacing Indigenous communities. In so doing we are
defying Natural Law that governs the planet’s life systems. Climate disruption is the direct result of human
activities pushing beyond the limits of Natural Law.”